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26 August 2008

It FELT illegal....

Friday afternoon I had a package in my mailbox. It contained two unlabeled packs of cigarettes and a "smoking diary." It was from a research company. They will pay me $10 to smoke their cigarettes and tell them how I like them. As I am not a smoker, I don't know how I was picked as one of the test subjects. I live in California, where you can't smoke within a nautical mile of any living creatures potentially breathing air, and you have to sacrifice your first born in taxes for each pack you buy. We have some pretty strict anti-smoking stuff going on here. I'm pretty sure that smoking is considered a bigger deal than snorting coke. So, um....are you ALLOWED to just mail people cigarettes? Please advise.

Um, I don't want to start a blog fight but cigarettes and vaccines = not AT ALL the same thing. Clinical trials are both ethical and legal and are the only source of research out there. The only way we know medicine works is by trying it out. We know cigarettes kill cause people keep dying. There's nothing to "research" there.

I've never heard of anything like that? The last time I visited California was 2003 and they were tight on the subject then so I imagine the get tougher each year. Hey, by the way, you should have my cd by next Thursday at the latest according to the UPS people.